Visions of Future PhysicsNima Arkani-Hamed is championing a...

Visions of Future Physics

Nima Arkani-Hamed is championing a campaign to build the world’s largest particle collider, even as he pursues a new vision of the laws of nature.

By Quanta Magazine

Image caption: Nima Arkani-Hamed with collaborators Raffaele Tito D’Agnolo (seated at left) and David Pinner at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. Credit.- Béatrice de Géa for Quanta Magazine

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A highly recommended reading. About Nima Arkani-Hamed, one of the current best theoretical physicists, and the inaugural director of the new Center for Future High Energy Physics in Beijing and its planned 100 Tev collider, nicknamed “the Great Collider”.

A truly absorbing reading, and given the vital trajectory of him, from Iran to Canada as refugee, and from there to Beijing passing through Berkeley and Harvard, a very spiring one too.
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“There are very few things in life where what you want to do for idealistic reasons and what someone else wants to do for Machiavellian reasons are identical. And when that happens, you should just do it. You should just do it!” - Nima Arkani-Hamed